Match stick mini rafts: What you need: Wine corks Paper Match sticks Elastic bands Cocktail sticks or wooden skewers Ice lolly sticks Blue tack or playdough PVA glue What you do: Attach 3 wine corks together by wrapping 2 elastic bands around the corks ensuring that the lie flat like a raft. (I had to do this for my kids)
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These ice lolly sticks and wine cork rafts are so much fun and simple to make! Lollypop stick rafts: What you need: Wine corks Paper Cocktail sticks or wooden skewers Ice lolly sticks Blue tack or playdough PVA glue What you do: Place two lolly sticks slightly apart. Cover both sticks in PVA glue Place more lolly sticks across these
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Wine cork mini rafts are a great, fun craft for kids for anytime of the year. They are especially great for summer creativity and water play but also make a really super rainy day activity. If you follow us on Instagram you may have noticed that I like a glass of wine every now and again (ahem J )and I
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Monster Madness has taken over Our Little House in the Country. These cardboard box monsters were so much fun to make! A favourite book of ours at the moment is Scaredy Boo by Claire Freedman & Russell Julian. Doodles (5) has been very busy drawing his own monsters based on the little monsters in this book so we decided to
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Another quick and easy Autumn/Fall art activity for kids of all ages. Continuing our theme of autumn arts and crafts, Oodles (2.5 y.o) had lots of fun with this collage activity. What we used: blue, green and brown paper cotton wool balls PVA non toxic glue paint – autumn colours glitter What we did: tear the green paper to create
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As the weather is gloriously sunny at the moment we have been doing nearly all of our activities outdoors. Over the weekend we had the opportunity to do several art projects outside, you may have seen our Miniature Garden project which was really great fun. Another little project that we had great fun with was feet painting – this also
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